""[N]ever underestimate how much you encourage others just by being there, or discourage them by being absent. You need the help and support of your brothers and sisters in Christ, and they need yours. The Bible makes many commands about how we should love one another, serve one another, encourage one another, comfort one another and so on. You cannot obey those commands unless you are meeting with your fellow Christians week by week." —Andrew Randall, 'Following Jesus'
"Under our present circumstances Satan makes his attacks under
subterfuges and disguises. The victim of his wiles proudly imagines
that the artful sophistries by which he evades truth, stifles
conscience, and justifies himself in his opposition to God, are the
product of his own superior wisdom and insight. He regards the idea
of the existence of such a being as Satan as a weak superstition, and
the suggestion that he may be unconsciously acting under his
influence and control with contemptuous incredulity."
-- John L. Nevius D.D. (1896)
‘It’s misleading to say God accepts us the way we are. Rather he accepts us DESPITE the way we are. He receives us only in Christ ... Nor does he mean to leave us the way he found us, but to transform us into the likeness of his Son.’ - Sinclair Ferguson, “The Whole Christ” p.154
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